The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-30
BRITISH POLITICS.
Sir George TreveIyan DenOuDces
the Coercion BID.

LONDON, April 15th.-Sir George Trev-
elyan's letter attacking the Coercion bill
is the talk of the hour. Considering his
antecedents in the government of Ireland,
his action with regard to Gladstone's bill
and the terms in which the document is
couched, it is the most damaging condem-
nation of the Tory policy that has yet APP
peared. He brings out In an emphatic
way the fact that this bill is frankly aimed
at the suppression of political opinion,
whereas all previous coercion bills pretend
to be aimed only at the suppression CT
crime. He explains the attempts made by
leading Orangemen who are now members
of the Irish Government to suppress meet
ings of the Nationalist in Ulster by
means of armed mobs of Orangemen, and
declares in a sentence, the concluding
words of which will become historic,
''These men, Colonel Hartman, the
new Parliamentary Under Secretary, and
the Attorney General for ireland, Mr..
Holmes, are not the proper men to be the
councillors of the Lord Lieutenant and to
! have themselves an amount of power over
| the liberties of their countrymen which
far exceeds anything that can be imagined
or believed by those who have not been
behind the scenes of the Irish administra-
ton"
Nothing could possibly exceed the en-
thusiasm of the English people against CO.
ercion. have been in Ireland for the last
week, and can say in all sincerity that
the crimelessness and peace of the country
is something which would strike any visi-
| tor as phenomenal. I fear, however, a
strike; from what have heard, the evic-
tons on the Landsowne estate, and later
in Queens county, are certain to be prose-
cuted. In that case, William O'Brien tells
me TT. p. Gill. M. Pr he will leave for
Canada Sunday week. He proposes adj
dressing public meetings in Quebec, Mon
/ treal, Ottowa, Toronto and Kingston.
LONDON, April 15th.-Trevelyan' ad-
mirable outspoken letter published this
morning constitutes the severest blow yet
dealt to the Unionist party. Trevelyan
holds position comparable only to that of
| Harrington in personal respects to all par
ties His private experience In Irish legis-
lation at this time of intense crisis is
greater than that of any English poll
tician. The anxieties he suffered in the
| Irish Office, which turned his hair gray,
always secure him peculiar sympathy.
More good news come from Birmingham
to-day to the effect that in John Bright's
own division, meeting to elect represen-
tatives TO the Liberals association a week
ago was so stormy that it had to be adj
iourned. Last night it met again to elect
sixty-three representatives out of seventy
oil n
out single exception, was a pronounced
Gladstonian. Subsequently resolution
denOuncing coercion and expressing I'M
abated confidence in Gladstone was carried
The "Daily News" this morning contains
| eleven advertisement columns of solid sig
natures, numbering altogether $500 of
non-cOnfornist ministers of England and
Wales, protesting against coercion.
Colonel King-Harman, the newly ga
zetted Under Secretary for Ireland, is not
only known to have been imprisoned by a
Magistrate years ago, for deliberately Gre
| ating disturbance at the Cremorne Gar
dens and to have been also implicated in
other ways with the Irish Assizes Courts,
and to be a rack-rent landlord, all of
whose rents were greatly reduced by the
Land Commission, but now he is proved
to have been a most thorough-going
Home Ruler. In August, 1870, he adj
dressed the electors of the city of Dublin
as follows 81 earnestly entreat my fell
low -countrymen to Danish all unworthy
fears and suspicious, to sink all differences
of class, and to agree and unite in gaining
for our native land the privilege of Home
Rule"